A Texan conservative Anglican -- yes, a square peg -- ponders both churchly and worldly things and enjoys his new church.

Friday, August 31, 2012

High Comedy at the Republican Convention

And, no, I am not referring to
Clint Eastwood’s routine.To be
honest, I found it awkward although he had his moments, particularly when he
zinged Obama for attempting to try terrorists in the middle of New York
City.Still, I think those in
charge trusted him a bit too much, letting him speak without a script.But does anyone really want to tell
Clint Eastwood what to do?Be my
guest!

As for Romney’s speech, I wasn’t
wowed.But it was adequate, and he
came across as Presidential.And
the rest of the evening well debunked the meme that he’s a felonious unfeeling
plutocrat.And that was the sort
of night that was needed.

So, anyway, what do I find high
comedy about the convention?Liberal attempts to decode the words of Republicans to find racism and
other evils.The contortions
particularly MSNBC went to find RAAAAACISM were absurd.This week they practically invented the
game Six Degrees of Racism.

And last night MSNBC found
Birtherism in Romney’s speech.How?From these
words:

Tonight, that American flag is
still there on the Moon. And I don't doubt for a second that Neil Armstrong's
spirit is still with us. That unique blend of optimism, humility, and the
utter confidence that, when the world needs someone to do that, you need an
American.

While analyzing Mitt Romney’s convention speech on
Thursday, Schultz couldn’t help but hear a birther reference tucked within the
oration.

“Here is another thing that jumped out at me. ‘When the
world needs to do really good stuff, you need an American,’” he said.

He continued:

“That was the other line, you
know, we’ve got to do big stuff. We’ve got big problems. We don’t have an
American. How else are we supposed to take that line? To imply that the guy
who’s leading the country right now is not an American, ‘when the world needs
to do really big stuff we need an American.’ I felt that was below the belt,
and it was a dog whistle, whatever you want to call it, a bone throw to the
birthers out there that ‘I’m not that far from you.’”

Co-host Rachel Maddow was all too happy to agree.

“It struck me as the same way,” she said, “especially
coming on the heels of his birther joke from this past week.” That, of course,
was a reference to Romney making the comment that he doesn’t need to show his
birth certificate in Michigan (where he was born).

Hey, let’s join the
fun. Readers are invited to play
Six Degrees of Racism/Birtherism with my posts even.